Example sentences of "what [pers pn] had [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew nothing at all about England , apart from what I had gathered from reading a number of the works of P.G . |
| 2 | I summarised what I had learned from Froggy 's sister , and the many questions in my mind . |
| 3 | Marian explained what she had seen from the Ridgery . |
| 4 | That was not what she had inferred from Amy 's vehement if disjointed revelations . |
| 5 | She came to value what she had learnt from her difficult childhood , and to let go of the past . |
| 6 | He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’ |
| 7 | Ruth did n't follow straight away ; she stood folding her napkin absently and staring down at it and wondering what she had learnt from that . |
| 8 | THE sister of missing estate agent Suzy Lamplugh told last night how she survived a knife ordeal because of what she had learned from the family 's nightmare . |
| 9 | Loretta passed on what she had learned from Tracey . |
| 10 | ( Mindful of what we had seen from the office , we volunteered as witnesses to the Board of Enquiry . ) |
| 11 | In other words , branches agreed to retain less than before of what they had collected from students , and if necessary raise extra funds through special events . |
| 12 | Using what they had discovered from their visit to Bourbourg and official sources , Helen and Brian Attwell were able to piece together the last moments of Beaufort I L4508 . |
| 13 | They seemed to have a different attitude to the lecturers and were not afraid to go to them for elucidation of points they did not fully understand , and in tutorials showed their wider knowledge , and their readiness to think for themselves rather than just reproduce what they had learned from textbooks and lectures . |
| 14 | " Drowned , " he said , and told her what he had heard from Sam 's crew . |
| 15 | He only knew what he had heard from the servants . |
| 16 | What he had heard from Harry Chiltern was disturbing . |
| 17 | He promised to take the cast to him in the morning , and I arranged to call at his office at noon to learn what he had discovered from the dentist . |
| 18 | The monarch , it was argued , unable to escape from his burdens by resignation , as a mere minister could , and anxious to pass on undiminished to his heirs what he had inherited from his ancestors , was the safest and most effective possible guardian of the public welfare . |
| 19 | What he had judged from the photograph to be red-brick he saw now was deep red Quantock stone , used in the construction of the Abbey and all its surrounding buildings . |
| 20 | Athelstan remembered what he had learnt from his study of the Index of Saints but decided not to confide in Sir John . |
| 21 | I tried to question my master on what he had learnt from d'Aubigny , once we were shown up to our chamber , but Master Benjamin was in one of his more withdrawn moods . |
| 22 | Knowing their speed from the films and their weight and limb lengths , McMahon found that the configuration of motion in human walking perfectly matched what he had predicted from 19th-century physics . |
| 23 | Afterwards , Nicholas wondered what he had expected from Zacco . |
| 24 | Larry Gelbart , co-writer of Tootsie , when asked what he had learned from the experience of working with Hoffman , replied , ‘ Never to work with an actor who is smaller than the Oscar statuette ! ’ |
| 25 | This collection was in the care of the Royal College of Surgeons ; and other medical societies and medical schools built up museums where the student could study at leisure , augmenting what he had learned from lectures and dissections and at the bedside . |
| 26 | Wycliffe told the sergeant what he had learned from the girl in Riddle 's office and Curtis became animated . |
| 27 | By purporting to de-interpret them by removing the excrescences of later interpretations it made possible a reinterpretation which allowed mythology to be seen again as something that while still existing on the level of the most civilized and polished communication kept speaking of what it had sprung from — men 's basic needs and desires . |
| 28 | Even after the Independent 's uncritical puff for what it had learned from ‘ high-level sources ’ , America 's trial balloon was slow to take off . |